The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-08-12
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FRIDAY, AUG. -, 1887.
OUR PARIS LETTER.

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winnowing, shuilng, and shunting
every Frenchman capable of carry
ing arms, must now serve three
years under the flag, no substitutes,
no Sinking allowed; and next, all
candidates for the church and pro-
fession of schoolmaster, must be-
come "bold soger boys" The
Senate will most likely massacre the
latter clause of the bill, so neither
the church nor the school is in dam
ger. Many vigorous divines have
welded the material sword effeo-
lively. Cardinal Richelieu was the
best war Minister France ever pos
sessed. He was Bismarck and
Moltke, two single gentlemen rolled
into one.
The gulf between the slow coach
and the go-a-head republicans, is
becoming wider and deeper every
day. The Rouvier Cabinet has to
depend for its existence on the sup
port of the monarchists, and that
condition Of things, exasperates the
purists. There is certainly thunder
and lightning in the political atmos-
phere, and many good judges think
the storm will burst on the IA July
national holiday. The military
review on that occasion, will be
seized by the GROWERS and irori-
deurs, to hurrah-up Boulanger, and
to vent their spleen on President
Grevy, who, rightly or wrongly, is
accused of effecting the Morganatic
marriage between the royalists and
the republican opportunists. The
advanced republicans are now push
ing to the front all reforms hitherto
corked up to prevent disunity. No
more quilting, is the watchword: no
pocketing of your flag: let colors
be nailed to the mast all round. In
the foggy, fabby, eunuch petite
stage, that France is heaving and
tossing through, the resolute men,
with a plain unvanished programme,
will come uppermost. But how
long they will keep there, is another
matter.
What struck the French most IN
the British Jubilee, was the correct
ness of the immense crowd which
framed the procession of the Queen,
and the unity of patriotism, that
made the million hearts beat as one.
In Paris, such spectacle would be
wholly impossible. The twenty
army corps would be required to
watch such a gathering of the clans.
Then there is no Louis or Jules, the
Well-Beloved, to attract the million,
and unite the animating sentiment
of respect. The only idol France
appears to have is General Bou-
LANCER, like Nehilles, he has retired
to his tent; mails, il reUiendrd, as
the street poets carol his praises.
Nor were the French blind to the
political significance of the unparal-
leled Durbar of the Great White
Mother; the pagentry of England S
might, wealth, and friendship, is
equivalent to obligatory military
service, only the silver streak dis
penses with her having armed land
hosts on European lines. A keen
mast head lookout is being kept in
reference to the forthcoming jubilee
naval review, because on the Cont
nent the belief is general, that Eng.
land intends to raise her maritime
strength up to the broom at the
mast head standard. When power
is strong enough to sweep seas, the
transport of soldiers by an enemy
becomes next to an impossibility.
This question naturally leads ur
to the latest shuttle of the Egyptian
cards. Impartial judges incline tc
, the opinion, that the best result fol
England would be, the refusal Of
the Sultan, under Russo-F Franco
pressure, not to ratify the Conven
ton. England is not expected tc
clear out of Egypt to allow a riva
European power to ride in. Italy
and Austria especially, can never
permit to be hemmed in by Russis
at the Bosphorus, and France al
Morocco, for there are the cages the
latter two powers will seize, if Eng
land settles down in the Nile Valley
till it pleases her to go. And Ger
many has important colonists il
, Syria, that she might deem it pru
: dent to protect. A general all
round war is quite on the cards, tt
g maintain the freedom of the Medi
telranean or to dominate it. Powers
will group together as they have
interests to defend, or ambitions tt
advance. But it does not at al
follow, the ultimate settlement will
be made near the coveted territory
In the diplomatic cords, the bes
/ hands are held by the Central Powers
and England. Russia at Constants
nopie, would be more calamitous fol
France than England oare-taker o
Egypt. Respecting Morocco, France
Italy, Spain, and England, have
, Argus eyes fixed on the country
As yet no Khroumirs have been dis
f covered. 1t is rumored that on the
e very first attempt by a European
! Power to play at protectorate il
Morocco, England will send a divi
I sion to hold selected coin Of van
tage. One Gibraltar ought to b,
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